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 Mar., x9o6 I NOTES AND NEWS THE COSDOI An Illustrated Maazine of Western OrnffholoSy Published Bi-monthly hy t'he Cooper Orniholoi- 1 Club of California JOSEPH OIHHELL, Editor, Pasadena H. T. CLIFTOn, Business Manager, Box 404, PaMdena WILLIAM L. FIHLEY, OB'T E. Assiae Editors ana Ca, Californla: Published Mar. 20. 1906 Price in the Unit States, Canada, Mexico, and U. Colonies one dollar a year; single copies twentv-five cents. Price in all nntries in the International Postal Uoion one dollar and a qlr  year. Sub.riptions shollld be slt to the Business manu.pts and exchanges to th Editor. NOTES AND NEWS For the present all conmmnications intended for the Northern Division, C. O. C., or for the Club-at-Large, should he addressed to the care of Mr. Joseph Mailliard, 85 Vallejo St., San Francisco, and no! to C. S. Thompson. 51essrs. Finley and Bohlman are in southerin California for the spring months to conthroe their work in bird photography. They are bending their energies to secure a life-series of the osprey, bald eagle and condor. A pair of condors is being watched in the locality where a young one was successfully raised last season. Several Cooper Club members are jealously guarding the secret, and woe betide the per- son who tries to "collect" either the egg or the birds ! Mr. Harry Lelande spent a week in early February at Calexico, in the Imperial Valley below Salton. He reports the region to be swarming witIx water birds, due to the ovenqow from the Colorado. Mr. Harold Gay spent the past summer and fall in Lower California looking after mining interests. While there he obtained the eggs of a number of rare birds, upon which he has promised to hase an article or two for THE CONDOR. Mr. Gay met with Nelson and Gold- man in the San Pedro Martit region, and re- ports them to be having their usual success in securing valuable mammals, birds, reptiles, etc., for the Biological Survey. It is with pleasure that we are privileged to announce the prospective return to California of Mr. Bradshaw H. Swales, lately of Detroit, but for several years in the 9o's one of our Southern Division, C. O. C., members. Mr. Swales has been doing much sound work with the birds of Michigan, and we are sorry that the Michigan Ornithological Club will lose so energetic a worker; but what is their loss, will be most emphatically our gain ! Mr. Bradford Torrev of Wellesley Hills, Mass., is spending the -inter in southern Cali- fornia, having undertaken the journey for the sole purpose of extending his acquaintance among the birds. Thru the use of the field glass alone he is having remarkable success. By patient and persistent search he has located and studied such an elusive bird as the rufous- crowned sparrow, which but few of even our resident bird students have succeeded in de- tecting. Mr. Torrey is an accurate observer, and an entertaining writer as well, a combina- tion which is altogether rare. He is the author of several popular books on eastern birds. We have asked that he write up some of his im- pressions of western bird-life for a future issue of THE CONDOR. The above is from a photograph of the silver loving cup presented by the Club to Walter K, Fisher as a token of appreciation for his ser- vices as editor of THE CONDOR. The cup was designed by W. Otto Emerson and execnted by Shreve & Co., San Francisco, and repre- sents a condor's egg-shell supported between two condors. The latter stand 6/ inches high upon a silver base. The inscription reads: IValler Ix: Fisher front the Cooper Or,tilhological lttb 190 - At the Annual Dinner of the Northern Divis- ion, January I3, I9O6, Mr. Emerson made an appropriate presentation speech, which was re- sponded to feelingly by Mr. Fisher. The entire incident was one to be long remembered with pleasure by all present. Mr. W. B. Judson reports finding a western